Heinrich Triepel
Carl Heinrich Triepel ( born February 12, 1868 in Leipzig, † November 23, 1946 in Untergrainau ) was a German legal scholar. He is considered one of the most important constitutional and international law of the 20th century. He was the founder and first chairman of the Association of German constitutional law teacher.
Life
Triepel was born the son of the manager and business associate of an export business in Paris Gustav Adolf Triepel and its Switzerland -born wife Mathilde Marie Henriette, nee Short, in Leipzig. His brother was later a professor of medicine Hermann Triepel. He married 1894 Maria Sophia Ebers, a daughter of the Egyptologist and novelist Georg Ebers. Triepel visited the Teichmannsche private school and completed his high school education in 1886 at the humanist Thomas School in Leipzig.
He studied law and Kameralistik among others, Gustav Friedrich Eugen Rümelin, Karl von Amira and Heinrich Rosin at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg and Adolph Schmidt, Rudolph Sohm, Adolf Wach, Emil Albert Friedberg, Bernhard Windscheid and Wilhelm Roscher at the University of Leipzig. During his studies he joined the Corps Suevia Freiburg (from 1886). He finished his studies in 1890 with his first state examination and was built in 1891 at Karl Binding with the dissertation The interregnum. A State Legal examination of Dr. iur. utr. doctorate. From 1890 to 1894 he worked as a law clerk at the District Court and District Court of Leipzig as well as an assessor with the notary Heinrich Erler in Leipzig. In 1894 he passed the Second State Examination.
In 1893 he completed his habilitation in government, international and administrative law and has been a lecturer in constitutional law at the Leipzig Faculty of Law. At the same time, he was from 1896 to 1897 Gerichtsassessor and assistant judge at the District Court Leipzig. In 1899 he became associate professor in Leipzig. In 1900 he went as Professor of Public Law, succeeding Gerhard Anschütz at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He was Dr. scient. doctorate in political science and polit moved in 1909 to the chair of constitutional, administrative, churches and international law at the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel. At the same time he taught the deposed Moritz Liepmann at the Naval Academy. Among his pupils in Kiel belonged to the Prince Adalbert of Prussia.
In 1913 Triepel the reputation of the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin as constitutional, administrative and canonist. In a controversy surrounding the appointment of Walther Schücking to Berlin he lay down in the center politician Matthias Erzberger. At this university 's Legal Department he remained until the end of 1944, the Institute for Work was interrupted by the war. In 1923 he gave a lecture at the Hague Academy of International Law and 1928 lectures at the Annual Meeting of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science in Munich. In 1928 he was appointed by the imperial government in the Constitutional Committee of the Provincial Conference. From 1931 he was chairman of the Permanent Deputation of German Jurists.
Triepel was member of the German Alpine Club. From 1891 he was a member of the Imperial Yacht Club in Kiel. From 1910 to 1920 he was a member of the Institut de Droit International. In 1915 he was jointly among others, Albert Einstein, Max Weber and Ludwig Quidde signatory to one of the then popular " intellectual input ", which occurred in this case for a negotiated peace, and rejected an incorporation or annexation politically independent and accustomed to independence peoples as three the weeks previously published Seeberg address called for in favor of a victorious peace. In 1917, he signed the "Declaration against the Reichstag majority" that supported a negotiated peace. Until 1918 he was a member of the German Nazi Party. In 1919 he joined the German National People's Party. In 1930 he came out because of the nationalist and anti-Semitic course of Alfred Hugenberg from the party.
After a botched eye surgery in 1945, almost completely blind, Triepel last lived in his summer house at the foot of the Zugspitze, where he died in late 1946.
Services
One of the major benefits Triepels life, the founding of the Association of German constitutional law teachers in 1921 / 22 marks basic idea was to create a forum for joint consultation and mutual exchange under the conditions of the postwar era and the new constitutional situation. The Association met to 1932 annually at different locations and grabbed it also pronounced on current issues such as the question of federalism under the new constitution or the dictatorial power of the president. In 1932 the union was initially continued formally in 1938 it was dissolved and until 1949, newly founded mainly on the initiative of Walter Jellinek. Triepel rejected Nazism and resisted the Gleichschaltung of the Constitutional Law Teachers Association.
The highlight of the academic career Triepels was his Rectorate 1926 / 1927. Frequently cited were the words with which he handed over the magnificent Rector mantle to his successor: This coat is hard, and that's good, you can not hang so easily to the wind him.
Triepel authored many books on constitutional and international law, had the formative impact on the contemporary and current understanding of the law. He is considered the founder of the dualistic doctrine in international law. In 1901 he published the source collection to the constitutional, administrative and international law.
Works (excerpt)
- The interregnum. 1892
- The latest advances in the field of martial law. 1894
- International law and state law in 1899
- Unitarianism and federalism in the German Reich. 1907
- The future of international law. Leipzig 1916
- The Empire supervision. Berlin 1917
- The freedom of the seas and the future peace. Bern 1917
- Virtual nationality. Berlin 1921
- Disputes between rich and countries. Berlin 1923
- International law. (ca. 1924)
- Les rapports entre le droit et le droit international internal. 1925
- Federalism and the Revision of the Weimar Constitution. (ca. 1925)
- State law and politics. Berlin 1926
- The State Constitution and the political parties. Berlin 1928
- Being and development of the state court. Berlin 1929
- The State Constitution and the political parties. 1930
- International Watercourses. 1931
- The hegemony. Stuttgart 1938
- Delegation and mandate in public law. Stuttgart 1942
- From the style of the law. Heidelberg 1947
- Source collection to the German Empire State Law, (1922 ), ( 1926), (1931 ),
- Edited: Public law treatises. 14 vols 1921-1933
- Edited: Erg.-Bd. Administrative treatises. 1925